33 The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: “O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died(A) instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 18:33 In Hebrew texts this verse (18:33) is numbered 19:1.

The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

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25 A foolish son brings grief to his father
    and bitterness to the mother who bore him.(A)

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Proverbs of Solomon

10 The proverbs(A) of Solomon:(B)

A wise son brings joy to his father,(C)
    but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

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For I could wish that I myself(A) were cursed(B) and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people,(C) those of my own race,(D)

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13 As a father has compassion(A) on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

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10 Now, therefore, the sword(A) will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

11 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Out of your own household(B) I am going to bring calamity on you.(C) Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight.(D) 12 You did it in secret,(E) but I will do this thing in broad daylight(F) before all Israel.’”

13 Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned(G) against the Lord.”

Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away(H) your sin.(I) You are not going to die.(J) 14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for[a] the Lord,(K) the son born to you will die.”

15 After Nathan had gone home, the Lord struck(L) the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill. 16 David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying(M) in sackcloth[b] on the ground. 17 The elders of his household stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he refused,(N) and he would not eat any food with them.(O)

18 On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

19 David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked.

“Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”

20 Then David got up from the ground. After he had washed,(P) put on lotions and changed his clothes,(Q) he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they served him food, and he ate.

21 His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept,(R) but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”

22 He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows?(S) The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.’(T) 23 But now that he is dead, why should I go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him,(U) but he will not return to me.”(V)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 12:14 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text for the enemies of
  2. 2 Samuel 12:16 Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text does not have in sackcloth.

32 But now, please forgive their sin(A)—but if not, then blot me(B) out of the book(C) you have written.”

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17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are.(A) He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.(B)

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